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" O, father abbot, An old man, broken with the storms of state, Is come to lay his weary bones among ye ; Give him a little earth for charity... "
The Works of Mr. William Shakespear;: In Six Volumes. Adorn'd with Cuts - Page 1782
by William Shakespeare - 1709
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Mores Catholici, Or, Ages of Faith, Volume 3

Kenelm Henry Digby - 1847 - 844 pages
...like Wolsey pursuing his .journey to Leicester, and greeting the abbot and his convent therewith these words: "O father abbot, an old man, broken with the...storms of state, is come to lay his weary bones among you ; give him a little earth for charity."" In the Saxon chronicle the account of the imprisonment...
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The Plays of William Shakspeare: King Richard III ; King Henry VIII ...

William Shakespeare, Alexander Chalmers - 1847 - 638 pages
...reverend abbot, With all his convent, honourably receiv'd him ; To whom he gave these words, — 0 father abbot, An old man, broken with the storms of state, Is come to lay his weary bones among ye ; Oive him a little earth for charity ! So went to bed : where eagerly his sickness Pursu'd him still...
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The Story of the Greatest Nations: From the Dawn of History to the ..., Volume 6

Edward Sylvester Ellis - 1905 - 410 pages
...ill, and tottered into the Abbey of Leicester 10 die. Well has Shakespeare shown him as saying: " О Father Abbot, An old man, broken with the storms of state. Is come to lay his weary bones among ye : Give him a little earth for charity ! " A new ministry was formed in October, 1529, in which, for...
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Poems, Volume 2

George Crabbe - 1906 - 532 pages
...flood, and field ; Of being taken by [the] insolent foe And sold to slavery. Othello, Aft I. Scene 3. An old man, broken with the storms of [state], Is come to lay his weary bones among [ye] ; Give him a little earth for charity. Hmn nil. Aft IV. Scene i. TALE II. THE PARTING HOUR. MINUTELY...
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Stokes' Encyclopedia of Familiar Quotations: Containing Five Thousand ...

1906 - 810 pages
...man y' spares thes stones, And curst be he y' moves my bones.' SHAKESPEARE, Inscription over His Tomb An old man, broken with the storms of state. Is come to lay his weary bones among ye; Give him a little earth for charity! SHAKESPEARE, King Henry VIII, iv, 2 Thy bones are marrowless,...
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The Life of King Henry VIII.

William Shakespeare - 1908 - 204 pages
...Abbey, where the reverend Abbot, With all his convent, honourably received him : To whom he gave these words, — ' O father Abbot, An old man, broken with...of state, Is come to lay his weary bones among ye ; Give him a little earth for charity ! ' So went to bed, where eagerly his sickness Pursued him still...
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The Life of King Henry VIII.

William Shakespeare - 1908 - 206 pages
...reverend Abbot, With all his convent, honourably received him : To whom he gave these words, — ' 0 father Abbot, An old man, broken with the storms of state, Is come to lay his weary bones among ye ; Give him a little earth for charity ! ' So went to bed, where eagerly his sickness Pursued him still...
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Poetical Works

George Crabbe - 1908 - 642 pages
...flood, and field ; ... Of bring taken by the insolent foe And sold to slavery. Othtllo, Act i, Scene 3. An old man, broken with the storms of state, Is come to lay his weary bones among ye ; Give him n little earth for charity. Henry VII J, Act iv, Scene 2. MIÎTCTELY trace man's life ;...
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The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Volume 13

William Shakespeare - 1908 - 380 pages
...abbot, With all his covent, honourably received him ; To whom he gave these words, "O father abbot, «o An old man, broken with the storms of state, Is come to lay his weary bones among ye ; Give him a little earth for charity!" So went to bed ; where eagerly his sickness Pursued him still...
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Great American Lawyers: The Lives and Influence of Judges and ..., Volume 3

William Draper Lewis - 1908 - 634 pages
...his strength, and in the summer of 1856, he returned to Dover with the words of Woolsey on his lips, "an old man, broken with the storms of state is come to lay his bones among you." His friend Chief-Justice Comegys writes of his death: "On the ninth day of November,...
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